Finite-Size Scaling of the Domain Wall Entropy Distributions for the 2D $\pm J$ Ising Spin Glass

The statistics of domain walls for ground states of the 2D Ising spin glass with +1 and -1 bonds are studied for $L\times L$ square lattices with $L \le 48$,and$p$=0.5,where$p$ is the fraction of negative bonds, using periodic and/or antiperiodic boundary conditions. When $L$ is even, almost all domain walls have energy $E_{dw}$ = 0 or 4. When $L$ is odd, most domain walls have $E_{dw}$ = 2. The probability distribution of the entropy, $S_{dw}$, is found to depend strongly on $E_{dw}$. When $E_{dw}=0$, the probability distribution of $\mathrm{\mid }{S}_{dw}\mathrm{\mid }$ is approximately exponential. The variance of this distribution is proportional to $L$, in agreement with the results of Saul and Kardar. For $E_{dw}=k>0$ the distribution of $S_{dw}$ is not symmetric about zero. In these cases the variance still appears to be linear in $L$, but the average of $S_{dw}$ grows faster than $\sqrt{L}$. This suggests a one-parameter scaling form for the $L$-dependence of the distributions of $S_{dw}$ for $k>0$.